'Doves' in the Bible

The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!

The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, you are beautiful, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of female goats descending from Mount Gilead.

His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan -- each one for his iniquity.

They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes," declares the Lord.

Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.

"I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"